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The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I want a pig. I want a pig on a leash. A baby pig on a leash.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.